How much you depend on Google traffic?

If you don't want to depend on Google to be your main traffic source you simply just need to find another source of traffic.

For example many on this very forum drive a ton of traffic with their signatures. Forum marketing simply works. Find niche-specific forums for your topic and start posting.

I don't depend on google for traffic really. I get a lot of traffic through here, some blogs, social networks... emailing, and word of mouth!

I have found this forum to be one of the most consistent sources of traffic to my blog since I signed up here. Other long term forms of traffic generation like article marketing and video marketing are also helpful in both sending direct traffic and giving you another indirect link via Google if you are competing strongly on certain keywords.

Best of luck
Ellen

Oh and also, looking on fiverr.com is a good way to find someone to write a decent ezine article and submit it for you. If you are unfamiliar with fiverr, you may be amazed that a ton of services are offered for 5 dollars

There is always a reason why google dumps old front page listings. It can be as simple as a competitor decided to build some links to their page after sitting stagnet for a couple of years once they seen they where beat out. In which case they probably also had several different pages for that same exact front page listing so they chose to bring them all back.

However if you are building multiple pages to your site through either a blog or even just your front page. It really shouldnt make that much of a difference to lose one front page listing. For I actually have a few pages on page 3 and they are still getting really good traffic for those page 3 keywords.

You should be deversifying in the first place just to make sure you are getting traffic from many different sources and not just one. There are several ways you can do this and this forum is just one of those ways. You can also use articles and or videos. It is all on what you can offer your possible readers. If it is articles then send out a few articles every month. If you are good at building or making videos then offer that. You can even take your already published articles and turn them into videos.

But do not rely fully on just one traffic source it is just setting you up for failure later on.

There are multiple methods of getting traffic that doesn't rely on Google.

Some have been listed already.

Here's a short list for you to investigate:

1. Article Marketing
2. Video Marketing
3. Forum Marketing.
4. Blog Comments.
5. Podcasts.
6. Guest Posts
7. PPC (but personally I don't recommend this until you've created at least one product for sale)

It's important not to try and do all of these at the same time - concentrate on one at a time. And figure out what works and what doesn't.

Then the most important advice of all:

START A LIST.

That way, as you create traffic you build a list.

HTH.



Paul

PS - BACK UP YOUR LIST REGULARLY!